It's a decent buyout starting in 2024 though. If you can wait until 2025, buyout makes even more sense.

This is just blatantly false. Not everyone is a bandwagon fan, or has hated spurgeon contract from beginning & want spurgeon to go

The Wild were bad last year, viewership and ticket sales were down. Spurgeon is not currently and has never been a top-10 d-man in the league and he's being paid like one. He's never even been the best d-man on the Wild. None of this is false.

Spurgeon's contract is awful, just ask anyone outside of the MN fanbase. It's really simple, you don't give big money and term contracts to 31 yo players. Not many players can get to even age 35 and still be more than a role player.

We don’t want Spurgeon - an aging d-man with a contract that goes on forever.